Salon Kingsadore: Mountain Rescue (Sarang Bang)

Graham Reid | Mar 14, 2010 | <1 min read

Salon Kingsadore: The Warm War

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Salon Kingsadore is another vehicle for Auckland guitarist Gianmarco Liguori whose earlier albums under his own name (with stellar guests) have appeared at Elsewhere, and who seems a hard man to pigeonhole.

There are pieces here (notably the lovely and laidback The Gold Stereo and the twanging Lost Chord) in which you can almost imagine words being sung, such is their suggestive power. I'd be astonished if some singer doesn't set lyrics to these tunes.

Salon Kingsadore cover a lot of territory here (weird trumpet tones in Floating on the Nile, the cinematic Mood Lightening with Smith on melodically serpentine flute) and although a few pieces fade rather too quickly than come to some more natural conclusion you should fasten that seat belt.

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